9305290

Employee Vacation Scheduling and Payout System

PublishedApril 5, 2016
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InventorsAmy Carenza
Technical Abstract

Patent Claims
32 claims

Legal claims defining the scope of protection, as filed with the USPTO.

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1. An employee vacation scheduling computer system comprising: (a) an employee database comprising a plurality of employee entries and a plurality of non-working calendar dates wherein, each employee entry represents an employee working for an employer and wherein, each non-working date represents a non-working day, which comprises a day whereon an employee is exempted from working, each employee entry associated with at least one employee paid-leave-deposit-rate and a number of used paid leaves, wherein, a paid-leave-deposit-rate represents the number of paid leaves allotted to an employee per a predetermined length of time within a current calendar year, the sum of each predetermined length of time pertaining to each of the at least one paid-leave-deposit-rate being equivalent to the time span of the current calendar year, and wherein, a used paid leave represents a paid leave utilized by an employee; and (b) a computer-implemented store module for enabling an employee to purchase a vacation travel service out of a plurality of vacation travel services, a vacation travel service spanning a predetermined number of vacation days, the store module comprising: (i) a computer-implemented date module for enabling the employee, in the process of purchasing the vacation travel service, to mark successive vacation dates for the utilization of the vacation travel service, the vacation dates comprising an end vacation date representing the last day of the utilization of a vacation travel service; and (ii) a computer-implemented payment module in communication with the employee database and comprising a computer-implemented paid leaves module and a computer-implemented compulsory module, the payment module for enabling the employee to pay for the vacation travel service upon determining, by the paid leaves module, that the number of vacation days, which pertain to the vacation dates and which exclude the non-working days, are lesser than or equivalent to the sum of the number of paid leaves that the employee will have by the end vacation date as determined from the at least one paid-leave-deposit-rate corresponding to the employee and a number of carried-over paid leaves that corresponds to the employee subtracted by the number of used paid leaves, and determining, by the compulsory module, the vacation dates do not include a compulsory date, the compulsory module being activated before the paid leaves modules such that the computer system consumes less processing power; a user interface for a user to interact with the employee database; wherein, the number of carried-over paid leaves are associated with each employee entry, a carried-over paid leave representing an unused paid leave of an employee that is carried over from a previous calendar year or years; (iii) a computer-implemented conversion module for converting a currently available paid leave of an employee into an equivalent monetary value wherein unused vacation time is a payment within the payment module.

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2. The vacation scheduling system of claim 1 wherein, the number of vacation days, which pertain to the vacation dates and which excludes the non-working days, is added to the number of used paid leaves upon the completion of the purchase of the vacation travel service.

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3. The vacation scheduling system of claim 1 wherein, each employee entry is further associated with a number of total current paid leaves, which comprises the number of paid leaves the employee currently possesses, the number of vacation days, which pertain to the vacation dates and which exclude the non-working days, subtracted from the number of total current paid leaves upon the completion of the purchase of the vacation travel service; the information of the number of total current paid leaves accessible by the employee.

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4. The vacation scheduling system of claim 3 wherein, the number of total current paid leaves comprises the sum of the number of carried-over paid leaves and a number of current year paid leaves, which comprises the total number of paid leaves that pertain to the current calendar year the employee currently possesses, the number of current year paid leaves determined from the at least one paid-leave-deposit-rate; the number of vacation days, which pertain to the vacation dates and which excludes the non-working days, deducted from the number of carried-over paid leaves as the number of vacation days, which pertain to the vacation dates and which excludes the non-working days, is subtracted from the total current paid leaves, the number of vacation days, which pertain to the vacation dates and which excludes the non-working days, subtracted from the number of current year paid leaves upon the exhaustion of the carried-over paid leaves.

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5. The vacation scheduling system of claim 1 wherein, each employee entry is further associated with a number of total entitled paid leaves, which comprises the number of paid leaves the employee will possess by the end of the current calendar year; the number of vacation days, which pertain to the vacation dates and which exclude the non-working days, subtracted from the number of total entitled paid leaves upon the completion of the purchase of the vacation travel service; the information of the number of total entitled paid leaves accessible by the employee.

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6. The vacation scheduling system of claim 5 wherein, the number of total entitled paid leaves comprises the sum of the number of carried-over paid leaves and a number of current entitled paid leaves, which comprises the number of paid leaves pertaining to the current calendar year the employee will possess by the end of the current calendar year, the number of current entitled paid leaves determined from the at least one paid-leave-deposit-rate; the number of vacation days, which pertain to the vacation dates and which exclude the non-working days, deducted from the number of carried-over paid leaves as the number of vacation days, which pertain to the vacation dates and which exclude the non-working days, is subtracted from the total entitled paid leaves, the number of vacation days, which pertain to the vacation dates and which exclude the non-working days, deducted from the number of current entitled paid leaves upon the exhaustion of the carried-over paid leaves.

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7. The vacation scheduling system of claim 1 wherein the conversion module for converting a currently available paid leave of an employee into equivalent vacation money, upon conversion, the vacation money associated with the corresponding employee entry, the vacation money to be used towards the purchase of a plurality of products and/or services, including vacation travel service.

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8. The vacation scheduling system of claim 7 wherein, each employee entry is associated with a remuneration value, which represents the remuneration of an employee; the vacation money equivalent to the paid leave of an employee determined from the remuneration thereof.

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9. The vacation scheduling system of claim 7 wherein, each employee entry is further associated with a number of total current paid leaves, which comprises the number of paid leaves the employee currently possesses, the converted paid leave subtracted from the number of total current paid leaves upon the conversion thereof; the information of the number of total current paid leaves accessible by the employee.

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10. The vacation scheduling system of claim 9 wherein, the number of total current paid leaves comprises the sum of the number of carried-over paid leaves and a number of current year paid leaves, which comprises the total number of paid leaves that pertain to the current calendar year the employee currently possesses, the number of current year paid leaves determined from the at least one paid-leave-deposit-rate; the converted paid leave deducted from the number of carried-over paid leaves as the converted paid leave is subtracted from the total current paid leaves, the converted paid leave deducted from the number of current year paid leaves upon the exhaustion of the carried-over paid leaves.

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11. The vacation scheduling system of claim 7 wherein, each employee entry is further associated with a number of total entitled paid leaves, which comprises the number of paid leaves the employee will possess by the end of the current calendar year; the converted paid leave subtracted from the number of total entitled paid leaves upon the conversion thereof the information of the number of total entitled paid leaves accessible by the employee.

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12. The vacation scheduling system of claim 11 wherein, the number of total entitled paid leaves comprises the sum of the number of carried-over paid leaves and a number of current entitled paid leaves, which comprises the number of paid leaves pertaining to the current calendar year the employee will possess by the end of the current calendar year, the number of current entitled paid leaves determined from the at least one paid-leave-deposit-rate; the converted paid leave deducted from the number of carried-over paid leaves as the converted paid leave is subtracted from the total entitled paid leaves, the converted paid leave deducted from the number of current entitled paid leaves upon the exhaustion of the carried-over paid leaves.

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13. The vacation scheduling system of claim 1 wherein, each employee entry is further associated with at least one compulsory calendar date, which represents a calendar date within the current calendar year whereon, an employee is not allowed to be on a paid leave; the employee database further associated with the date module such that, vacation dates that include a compulsory date cannot be marked.

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14. The vacation scheduling system of claim 1 wherein, the payment module is associated with the salary account of the employee such that, the purchase price of the vacation travel service is deducted from the balance in the salary account.

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15. The vacation scheduling system of claim 1 being integrated with an employer information system so as to log the vacation dates of the employee upon the purchase of the vacation travel service.

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16. An employee vacation scheduling computer system comprising: (a) an employee database comprising a plurality of employee entries and a plurality of non-working calendar dates wherein, each employee entry represents an employee working for an employer and wherein, each non-working date represents a non-working day, which comprises a day whereon an employee is exempted from working, each employee entry associated with at least one employee paid-leave-deposit-rate, a number of used paid leaves, and a number of carried-over paid leaves wherein, a paid-leave-deposit-rate represents the number of paid leaves allotted to an employee per a predetermined length of time within a current calendar year, the sum of each predetermined length of time pertaining to each of the at least one paid-leave-deposit-rate being equivalent to the time span of the current calendar year, wherein, a used paid leave represents a paid leave utilized by an employee, and wherein, a carried-over paid leave represents an unused paid leave of an employee that is carried over from a previous calendar year or years; (b) a computer-implemented store module for enabling an employee to purchase a vacation travel service out of a plurality of vacation travel services, a vacation travel service spanning a predetermined number of vacation days, the store module comprising: (i) a computer-implemented date module for enabling the employee, in the process of purchasing the vacation travel service, to mark successive vacation dates for the utilization of the vacation travel service, the vacation dates comprising an end vacation date representing the last day of the utilization of a vacation travel service; and (ii) a computer-implemented payment module in communication with the employee database and comprising a computer-implemented paid leaves module and a computer-implemented compulsory module, the payment module for enabling the employee to pay for the vacation travel service upon: determining, by the paid leaves module, that the number of vacation days, which pertain to the vacation dates and which exclude the non-working days, are lesser than or equivalent to the sum of the number of paid leaves that the employee will have by the end vacation date as determined from the at least one paid-leave-deposit-rate corresponding to the employee and a number of carried-over paid leaves subtracted by the number of used paid leaves, and determining, by the compulsory module, the vacation dates do not include a compulsory date, the compulsory module being activated before the paid leaves module such that the computer system consumes less processing power; (c) a computer-implemented conversion module for converting a currently available paid leave of the employee into equivalent vacation money, upon conversion, the vacation money associated with the corresponding employee entry, the vacation money to be used towards the purchase of a vacation travel service; and (d) a user interface for a user to interact the employee database.

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17. A computer-implemented employee vacation scheduling method comprising: (a) providing an employee database comprising a plurality of employee entries and a plurality of non-working calendar dates wherein, each employee entry represents an employee working for an employer and wherein, each non-working date represents a non-working day, which comprises a day whereon an employee is exempted from working, each employee entry associated with at least one employee paid-leave-deposit-rate and a number of used paid leaves, wherein, a paid-leave-deposit-rate represents the number of paid leaves allotted to an employee per a predetermined length of time within a current calendar year, the sum of each predetermined length of time pertaining to each of the at least one paid-leave-deposit-rate being equivalent to the time span of the current calendar year, and wherein, a used paid leave represents a paid leave utilized by an employee; and (b) providing a computer-implemented store module for enabling an employee to purchase a vacation travel service out of a plurality of vacation travel services, a vacation travel service spanning a predetermined number of vacation days, the store module comprising: (i) a computer-implemented date module for enabling the employee, in the process of purchasing the vacation travel service, to mark successive vacation dates for the utilization of the vacation travel service, the vacation dates comprising an end vacation date representing the last day of the utilization of a vacation travel service; and (ii) a computer-implemented payment module in communication with the employee database and comprising a computer-implemented paid leaves module and a computer-implemented compulsory module, the payment module for enabling the employee to pay for the vacation travel service upon: determining, by the paid leaves module, that the number of vacation days, which pertain to the vacation dates and which exclude the non-working days, are lesser than or equivalent to the sum of the number of paid leaves that the employee will be have by the end vacation date as determined from the at least one paid-leave-deposit-rate corresponding to the employee and a number of carried-over paid leaves that corresponds to the employee subtracted by the number of used paid leaves; and determining, by the compulsory module, the vacation dates do not include a compulsory date, the compulsory module being activated before the paid leaves module such that the computer system consumes less processing power; wherein, the number of carried-over paid leaves are associated with each employee entry, a carried-over paid leave representing an unused paid leave of an employee that is carried over from a previous calendar year or years; and interacting with the employeed database by a user interface for a user.

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18. The vacation scheduling method of claim 17 wherein, the number of vacation days, which pertain to the vacation dates and which excludes the non-working days, is added to the number of used paid leaves upon the completion of the purchase of the vacation travel service.

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19. The vacation scheduling method of claim 17 wherein, each employee entry is further associated with a number of total current paid leaves, which comprises the number of paid leaves the employee currently possesses, the number of vacation days, which pertain to the vacation dates and which exclude the non-working days, subtracted from the number of total current paid leaves upon the completion of the purchase of the vacation travel service; the information of the number of total current paid leaves accessible by the employee.

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20. The vacation scheduling method of claim 19 wherein, the number of total current paid leaves comprises the sum of the number of carried-over paid leaves and a number of current year paid leaves, which comprises the total number of paid leaves that pertain to the current calendar year the employee currently possesses, the number of current year paid leaves determined from the at least one paid-leave-deposit-rate; the number of vacation days, which pertain to the vacation dates and which excludes the non-working days, deducted from the number of carried-over paid leaves as the number of vacation days, which pertain to the vacation dates and which excludes the non-working days, is subtracted from the total current paid leaves, the number of vacation days, which pertain to the vacation dates and which excludes the non-working days, subtracted from the number of current year paid leaves upon the exhaustion of the carried-over paid leaves.

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21. The vacation scheduling method of claim 17 wherein, each employee entry is further associated with a number of total entitled paid leaves, which comprises the number of paid leaves the employee will possess by the end of the current calendar year; the number of vacation days, which pertain to the vacation dates and which exclude the non-working days, 20 subtracted from the number of total entitled paid leaves upon the completion of the purchase of the vacation travel service; the information of the number of total entitled paid leaves accessible by the employee.

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22. The vacation scheduling method of claim 21 wherein, the number of total entitled paid leaves comprises the sum of the number of carried-over paid leaves and a number of current entitled paid leaves, which comprises the number of paid leaves pertaining to the current calendar year the employee will possess by the end of the current calendar year, the number of current entitled paid leaves determined from the at least one paid-leave-deposit-rate; the number of vacation days, which pertain to the vacation dates and which exclude the non-working days, deducted from the number of carried-over paid leaves as the number of vacation days, which pertain to the vacation dates and which exclude the non-working days, is subtracted from the total entitled paid leaves, the number of vacation days, which pertain to the vacation dates and which exclude the non-working days, deducted from the number of current entitled paid leaves upon the exhaustion of the carried-over paid leaves.

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23. The vacation scheduling method of claim 17 further comprising providing conversion module for converting a currently available paid leave of an employee into equivalent vacation money, upon conversion, the vacation money associated with the corresponding employee entry, the vacation money to be used towards the purchase of a vacation travel service.

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24. The vacation scheduling method of claim 23 wherein, each employee entry is associated with a remuneration value, which represents the remuneration of an employee; the vacation money equivalent to the paid leave of an employee determined from the remuneration thereof.

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25. The vacation scheduling method of claim 23 wherein, each employee entry is further associated with a number of total current paid leaves, which comprises the number of paid leaves the employee currently possesses, the converted paid leave subtracted from the number of total current paid leaves upon the conversion thereof; the information of the number of total current paid leaves accessible by the employee.

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26. The vacation scheduling method of claim 25 wherein, the number of total current paid leaves comprises the sum of the number of carried-over paid leaves and a number of current year paid leaves, which comprises the total number of paid leaves that pertain to the current calendar year the employee currently possesses, the number of current year paid leaves determined from the at least one paid-leave-deposit-rate; the converted paid leave deducted from the number of carried-over paid leaves as the converted paid leave is subtracted from the total current paid leaves, the converted paid leave deducted from the number of current year paid leaves upon the exhaustion of the carried-over paid leaves.

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27. The vacation scheduling method of claim 23 wherein, each employee entry is further associated with a number of total entitled paid leaves, which comprises the number of paid leaves the employee will possess by the end of the current calendar year; the converted paid leave subtracted from the number of total entitled paid leaves upon the conversion thereof; the information of the number of total entitled paid leaves accessible by the employee.

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28. The vacation scheduling method of claim 27 wherein, the number of total entitled paid leaves comprises the sum of the number of carried-over paid leaves and a number of current entitled paid leaves, which comprises the number of paid leaves pertaining to the current calendar year the employee will possess by the end of the current calendar year, the number of current entitled paid leaves determined from the at least one paid-leave-deposit-rate; the converted paid leave deducted from the number of carried-over paid leaves as the converted paid leave is subtracted from the total entitled paid leaves, the converted paid leave deducted from the number of current entitled paid leaves upon the exhaustion of the carried-over paid leaves.

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29. The vacation scheduling method of claim 17 wherein, each employee entry is further associated with at least one compulsory calendar date, which represents a calendar date within the current calendar year whereon, an employee is not allowed to be on a paid leave; the employee database further associated with the date module such that, vacation dates that include a compulsory date cannot be marked.

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30. The vacation scheduling method of claim 17 wherein, the payment module is associated with the salary account of the employee such that, the purchase price of the vacation travel service is deducted from the balance in the salary account.

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31. The vacation scheduling method of claim 17 further comprising associating the store module with an employer information system so as to log the vacation dates of the employee, upon the purchase of the vacation travel service, into the employer information system.

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32. A computer-implemented employee vacation scheduling method comprising: (a) providing an employee database comprising a plurality of employee entries and a plurality of non-working calendar dates wherein, each employee entry represents an employee working for an employer and wherein, each non-working date represents a non-working day, which comprises a day whereon an employee is exempted from working, each employee entry associated with at least one employee paid-leave-deposit-rate, a number of used paid leaves, and a number of carried-over paid leaves wherein, a paid-leave-deposit-rate represents the number of paid leaves allotted to an employee per a predetermined length of time within a current calendar year, the sum of each predetermined length of time pertaining to each of the at least one paid-leave-deposit-rate being equivalent to the time span of the current calendar year, wherein, a used paid leave represents a paid leave utilized by an employee, and wherein, a carried-over paid leave represents an unused paid leave of an employee that is carried over from a previous calendar year or years; (b) providing a computer-implemented store module for enabling an employee to purchase a vacation travel service out of a plurality of vacation travel services, a vacation travel service spanning a predetermined number of vacation days, the store module comprising: (i) a computer-implemented date module for enabling the employee, in the process of purchasing the vacation travel service, to mark successive vacation dates for the utilization of the vacation travel service, the vacation dates comprising an end vacation date representing the last day of the utilization of a vacation travel service; and a computer-implemented payment module in communications with the employee database and comprising a computer-implemented paid leaves module and a computer-implemented compulsory module, the payment module for enabling the employee to pay for the vacation travel service upon: determining, by the paid leaves module, that the number of vacation days, which pertain to the vacation dates and which exclude the non-working days, are lesser than or equivalent to the sum of the number of paid leaves that the employee will be have by the end vacation date as determined from the at least one paid-leave-deposit-rate corresponding to the employee and the number of carried-over paid leaves subtracted by the number of used paid leaves; and determining, by the compulsory module, the vacation dates do not include a compulsory date, the compulsory module being activated before the paid leaves module such that the computer system consumes less processing power; and (c) providing a computer-implemented conversion module for converting a currently available paid leave of the employee into equivalent monetary value, upon conversion, the vacation money associated with the corresponding employee entry, the vacation money to be used towards the purchase of a vacation travel services or other products and services; and (d) interacting with the employee database by a user interface for a user.

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Amy Carenza

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